Evolutionary theology: a new chapter in the relations between theology and science

Wojciech P. Grygiel

doi:10.21697/spch.2020.56.3.05

Published: 2020-09-30

Vol. 56 No. 3 (2020)

Evolutionary theology: a new chapter in the relations between theology and science

Wojciech P. Grygiel

Studia Philosophiae Christianae

Section: Papers

https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2020.56.3.05

Abstract

Despite many arduous attempts to reconcile the separation between theology and science, the common ground where these two areas of intellectual inquiry could converge has not been fully identified yet. The purpose of this paper is to use evolutionary theology as the new and unique framework in which science and theology are indeed brought into coherent alignment. The major step in this effort is to acknowledge that theology can no longer dialogue with science but must assume science and its method as its conceptual foundation. This approach successfully does away with any tensions that may arise between the two disciplines and establishes a firm ground on which neither of them will turn into ideology. Moreover, it enables the dialogue with contemporary scientific atheism on solid grounds and the restoration of the credibility of theology in the secularist culture of the day.

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Received: 26/04/2020. Reviewed: 02/06/2020. Accepted: 30/06/2020

Keywords:

evolution, hermeneutics, rationality, picture of the world, relations between science and theology

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Grygiel, W. P. (2020). Evolutionary theology: a new chapter in the relations between theology and science. Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 56(3), 101–123. https://doi.org/10.21697/spch.2020.56.3.05

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